Update on Merida makeover

Disney has apparently heard the hew and cry over Bratz Merida. The image of the heavily made up, curvier Merida doll is gone from the Disney Princesses website. Carolyn Danckaert, who launched the petition, urged her more than 198,000 supporters to continue spreading the word to urge Disney to commit to keeping Merida’s image true to the adventurous, unique princess that fans adored in “Brave.”

From change.org:

“Numerous supporters have written to us to share the news that the new makeover version of Merida is no longer appearing on Disney.com. While this is very exciting news, it’s still too early to declare victory in our effort to keep Merida brave and preserve her original image. Making changes to a website are easy and easily undone; the true test will be how Disney plans on depicting Merida on merchandise now that she is part of the official Disney Princess collection.

To know that Disney is truly committed to preserving the Merida we all know and love, we need to keep the pressure on until we receive an official statement from them promising to keep Merida brave! Given how quickly news stories fade, it’s easy for a company like Disney to wait until public attention shifts to roll out their planned design changes.”